Inhabiting Contemporary Southern and Appalachian Literature: Region and Place in the Twenty-First Century

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Part I. Getting (Back) There: An Introduction and a Case Study Why Read for Place? An Introduction 3 1. “To Blend in the Place You’re In, but with a Mind to Do Something”: The Practice of Merging in James Dickey’s To the White Sea 25 Part II. A Matter of Context: Region and Place 2. One Writer’s Place: The South of George Garrett 51 3. Representing Urban Appalachia: Fred Chappell’s The Gaudy Place 66 4. The Truths of William Hoffman’s Southern Appalachian Places: The Critics’ and His Own 86 5. Southern Appalachian Montage: Reviewing Books across Regions (A Collection) 103 Part III. Looking Closer: A State of Place 6. “Out of Space, Out of Time”: The Virginia Novels of Julien Green 125 7. Hanging On to Place: The Self-Reflexive Depths of Kelly Cherry’s Fiction 141 8. Here, There, Where: David Huddle’s Appalachian Virginia 155 Epilogue: Writing for a Place—A Writer’s Workshop for McDowell County, West Virginia 177 Works Cited 189 Index 199 This page intentionally left blank ...